Armoured Neanderthal

Editor’s note: As Creation magazine has been continuously published since 1978, we
are publishing some of the articles from the archives for historical interest, such as this. For teaching and
sharing purposes, readers are advised to supplement these historic articles with more up-to-date ones available by searching creation.com.

Around the turn of the century, an anonymous writer in the science journal Nature
reported that in the February issue of the Bulletin International of the
Academy of Sciences of Cracow, Mr K. Stolyhwo described the discovery of a human
skull with classic Neanderthal features. The entire skeleton was in a tomb which
also contained iron arrowheads and a suit of chain-mail armour.

This report is no surprise, as Neanderthal bony features have nothing to do with
evolutionary 'ape-man' beliefs. They are probably just an example of genetic variation
among people, more pronounced in the early post-Flood era. Some evolutionists have
pointed out that some Neanderthal bony features are found in a percentage of present-day
Europeans.

Nature, 77:587 (1908)—as referenced in the Sourcebook series by William
Corliss.

Manna from heaven? Because this site and the information it contains is free, you might think so. However, lots of hard work went into producing it. Your gifts help to produce this ‘manna’ for others. Support this site